Pocket Casts gets updated to 5.4.1 with a slew of bug fixes

Pocket Casts — one of our favorite podcast apps — has picked up an update to version 5.4.1, bringing several bug fixes in tow. The app introduced a Material Design refresh earlier this year, and has steadily added new features, like audio effects, the ability to auto-download podcasts, playback sync between devices, and much more.

What...that didn't work? Odd it works for Apple all the time! Honestly though we fixed a truck load of things in this build, and we hope you like that it's now the best build of Pocket Casts ever, marketing be damned :)

God I hope so. It was really annoying over the past week or so having my bluetooth suddenly drop out. I'd have to force close the app, disconnect my BT headphones, reconnect them, reopen the app, and restart the podcast (also usually having to manually adjust the feed to get to where I was prior to the force close because the app obviously didn't save that data).

I love the playback sync and ability to speed up and remove silence from podcasts. Over a week alone I removed 20 minutes of silence from my podcasts, plus playing at 1.1x speed allows me to better keep up with them on my short commute.

I love it but have one issue, every once in a while it randomly pauses my podcast while I'm listening and I have to unlock my phone and hit Play, anyone else experience this? Podcast is downloaded not streaming so shouldn't be because of a network issue.

I've been having a problem that started a few weeks ago where if I'm streaming a podcast to my car (via bluetooth), and Waze interrupts in order to alert me about something, then after Waze lady is done talking, Pocket Casts restarts the podcast I was listening to from the very beginning. Argh!
I suspect Waze is the culprit because it was updated back around June 1st, but Pocket Casts hasn't been updated for quite a while. Even if Waze is the culprit, I'm hoping this Pocket Casts update has some workaround to the problem in it.

Without a doubt the best I/O of any podcatcher doomed by the annoying habit it has of renaming podcast files to unintelligibly coded file names which, if orphaned (meaning the file is downloaded but no longer appears on the server) and the user has to factory reset or switches devices, the app won't be able to find the file and the user won't be able to identify what the file is. I have repeatedly begged the developers to stop doing this ---- it isn't essential to the operation of the app --- but they steadfastedly refuse to do so. As a result, as I finish up my older podcasts that were downloaded in that app (I only have 6 more), I have uninstalled the app from all of my devices, and have migrated to a different podcatching app that doesn't tamper with filenames.